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The Systems Work of Social Change: How to Harness Connection, Context, and Power to Cultivate Deep and Enduring Change by Cynthia Rayner and Francois Bonnic. 2022. Oxford…
The growing threat of violent extremist groups and how these groups operate across borders has stimulated the emergence of a new type of security arrangement in Africa. These Ad-…
New research tracks the rise of E over S in sustainable finance.
Despite widespread interest in the topic, there is a lack of consensus about what sustainable finance is, and…
Political Settlements and Development: Theory, Evidence, Implications by Tim Kelsall, Nicolai Schulz, William D. Ferguson, Matthias vom Hau, Sam Hickey, and Brian Levy. Oxford…
Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) schemes have the ability to help smallholder farmers change their production and managerial practices through trainings, capacity…
The People’s Republic of China has fully financed the construction of at least 15 new African parliamentary buildings and refurbished and furnished several others on the …
On 8 November 2022, the Research Workshop on China and the Global South was held online, jointly organised by the LSE International Development, the Institute for Global Public…
Financing the Future: Multilateral Development Banks in the Changing World Order of the 21st Century by Chris Humphrey. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2022. 240 pp., £70…
The war in Ukraine is a turning point in the international relations of the Twenty-first century. As the bloodiest confrontation in Europe since World War II and with no end in…
Zhanna L. Malekos Smith argues that implanted microchips offer alluring benefits of convenience and mobility, but they carry potential cybersecurity, privacy and health risks.
The…
At least 39 people have been charged following the riots in Brazil’s capital earlier in January. Not only is it the latest mockery to strike the…
Max Lawson introduces Oxfam’s 2023 Davos report, ‘Survival of the Richest: How we must tax the super-rich now to fight inequality’
Walter is the father of my son’s best friend at…
Nicholas Ross Smith, from the University of Canterbury, makes a case for the departing Jacinda Ardern as being one of New Zealand’s finest statesperson, based on her communicative…
Blair Glencorse and Narayan Adhikari explore the domestic and international roots of Nepal's latest air tragedy, and discuss what can be done to end them.
Here in Kathmandu,…
Yuhan Zhang argues that the world’s largest economies and emitters are unlikely to take climate actions to achieve the 1.5 degree Celsius goal in the coming years.…